[Qgis-user] Best way to work in QGIS as 'clean install'

[Michael Treglia]

Thanks Alex,

Good point about Clones of the VM - I hadn't thought about that, and didn't
realize it only stores the differences against the original - that sounds
really useful more broadly too.

Thanks!
mike.



On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> On 01/11/2016 10:59 AM, Michael Treglia wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > I'm updating some training material I use in a course, and want to make
> > sure I'm viewing things as new users with a clean install would (while
> > maintaining a copy with everything as I want it configured).  I've
> figured
> > out a way to do this, but wanted to see if others have a better solution.
> >
> > My method that works just fine (and lets me do screenshots and such) is
> to
> > work on QGIS within a Ubuntu virtual machine, from my host Windows pc.
> >
> > It seems like a slightly easier way would be to have a separate install
> of
> > QGIS on Windows - tried that using two different install methods on the
> > same user account (OSGeo4W vs Standalone installer), but the standalone
> > picked up the settings from my OSGeo install.  To work as desired, would
> > that have to be done on a separate user account?
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts - Cheers,
> > mike
> >
> >
>
> +1 Virtual Machine
> It's the only real way to ensure it's 100% separate. You can also make
> cheap clones of the VM (only stores the differences), so that you always
> have a clean base VM to roll back to.
>
> I suppose you could login to a different windows account and that would
> at least not look at your users customization. But I'm not sure if all
> other settings would be unique.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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